User:Sofia Lucifairy/Europe and the Czechs

Sofia Lucifairy (talk) 15:21, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Europe and the Czechs was an influential and widely read Penguin Special written by female journalist Shiela Grant Duff during the appeasement of the second world war. It was published on the day British prime minister Chamberlain returned from Munich in which he pressured Czechoslovakia to cede territory to Nazi Germany, and it was distributed to every member of parliament. In her book she defended the Czech nation and criticized British policy, claiming that war could be an option if it were necessary to confront Hitler's aggresion in Czechia. She argued against the policy of "peace at almost any price", albeit without using the word "appeasement".

See also

• Guilty Men, a more polemic piece published two years later.